Providence care center open house SaturdayAfter years of planning and construction, a new home for Kodiak’s elders opens Saturday. An open house and ribbon cutting for the new Providence Chiniak Bay Elder House will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday. The facility, which is located on Chichenof Street on the hill above the hospital, will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for tours. For more information, call 486-9210. Contact the Daily Mirror newsr...

GCI and KTUU resolve dispute in time for OlympicsKodiak’s cable NBC programing is coming back just in time for Friday’s opening ceremonies for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games. Cable provider GCI and Anchorage NBC affiliate KTUU announced Thursday morning that they’ve resolved a contract dispute that has left rural Alaskan cable customers without NBC television programing since November. The resolution is a multi-year agreement, not a short-term truce for the Olympi...

Salvation Army has vacancy in low-income housingA recent policy change at the Kodiak Salvation Army has created some available housing on the Emerald Isle’s tight low-income rental market. Ten beds in a men’s apartment and six beds in a women’s apartment became available last month for low-income Kodiak applicants. The Mission Road Salvation Army’s Transitional Housing Facility isn’t new, but the decision to re-open it for all-purpose, low-income housing is. Th...

Winter weather to return to KodiakWinter weather will make a return appearance this Friday in Kodiak, predicts the National Weather Service. During what’s been one of the Emerald Isle’s warmest winters on record, no measurable, more than .1 inches, snowfall has fallen at Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak since Jan. 13. That’s expected to change Friday when Kodiak weather station manager Craig Eckert expects between 4 and 6 inches of snow will fall. "...

Coast Guard: better detection caused foreign incursion spikeThis year’s spike in foreign fishing incursions is based on better detection, not increased foreign fishing activity, says deputy chief of enforcement for the Coast Guard’s 17th District. In 2013 the Coast Guard documented 30 incursions into U.S. waters by foreign vessels in the Alaska area. More than half were by one South Korean trawler. The number is up from 10 total incursions in 2012. Both years are well beyo...

Selief Lane playground vandalizedKodiak Police are investigating the vandalism of two playground slides vandalized at the Selief playground. A citizen reported damage to the City of Kodiak play structure on Selief Lane Monday afternoon, City Parks and Recreation Director Charlie Powers said. It’s hard to tell when the damage occurred, he said. One piece of heavy plastic on a slide atop a three-level play structure was broken. There was a burn mar...

City council approves fishery adviserKodiak is one step away from a new fisheries adviser. By unanimous vote at a special Tuesday night meeting, the Kodiak City Council approved lobbyist Heather McCarty of Juneau to be the joint Kodiak city and borough fishery adviser. The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly will have the final say on McCarty’s position at its Thursday night meeting. The position is a two-year contract to represent the city and borough at...

KTUU offers GCI Channel 2 Olympics coverageAnchorage TV station KTUU is offering its competitor GCI permission to rebroadcast two weeks of Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics prime time coverage. The offer, announced by KTUU in a news release Friday, is the latest volley in a longstanding contract dispute between the two Alaska media giants. GCI didn’t immediately return phone calls from the Daily Mirror asking if the company would accept KTUU’s offer. The Olympics...

NPFMC to discuss pot cod fisheryFreezing the historical record for the Kodiak-area pot cod fishery is up for discussion this week in Seattle. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has a discussion about the pot cod fleet on its agenda this week at its Seattle meeting, although it’s not scheduled to take any action at that meeting. The Kodiak-based United Fishermen’s Marketing Association, which represents pot cod fishermen among other gea...

C.G. report shows increasing border violationsThe US Coast Guard is reporting a surge in the number of foreign fishing vessels encroaching upon Alaska’s ocean borders. According to a report to be released at this week’s meeting of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the number of incursions increased 300 percent — from 10 to 30 — between 2012 and 2013. In 2011, only one vessel violated the boundary. America’s oceanic border runs 200 miles offshore, ...